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- maquito2
Continuing with the climatic contrast a bit, I am always struck by the way in which the inhabitants of the northern hemisphere are surprised by the strange cultural heritage of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, sleighs and all that shit, when they visit Uruguay.
Although the temperature by the end of December is around 86 degrees, the "white Christmas" has always been incorporated, inherited. Enough is to say that in some shopping malls, there is even artificial snow falling from the sky over the huge pine tree.
Even culinary customs are bizarre. With 86 degrees, we usually eat nougat, nuts, drink sparkling wine and egg-nog. I think that I will never understand how there can be such a literal interpretation of a tradition which’s roots are in an absolutely contrary climate environment.
- I wonder if this happens anywhere else.maquito
- Weather in Europe has a cycle what brings lot of fog and really shitty dark weather over a large portion of the continent.sted
- Combined with the usual snow and cold gives you nothing but milky white winter in which visual conditions are limited, even walking a few miles can be scary af.sted
- Think about what stories the ppl. had to make up to keep people safe and happy.sted
- And how this was this was absorbed by capitalism. i was thinking that the Ozzie christmas is the most surreal.sted
- goes down to a level where tourists pay to get photos on surf boards dressed as Santa Claus.sted
- scarabin2
Adobe CC is on sale til the 27th. $39.99/mo for all apps
- Black Friday?doggydoggdog
- for how long?dkoblesky
- theres a better sale on the torrent sitesGuyFawkes
- lol I pay like $30 after a "re-negotiation" in the chat...grafician
- I think I could go as low as $25 if I complain on twitter toografician
- I did the $30 “negotiation” as well and they started charging me the full $50 after a few months so i quit again. Rejoined with this dealscarabin
- But yeah, it’s a black friday thingscarabin
- Nairn2
LinkedIn's so desperate...
My profile, such as it is, is pretty much empty from what I can remember - I've only got a sodding LinkedIn acount to stop Indians claiming to be a director in my business (as happened when I closed my LI account a year or two back. I'd not be entirely shocked to learn that they purposefully made it look like someone was claiming my business, just to get me back again).
- Linked is just an online phone book for business. But they try so hard to make it like a real social media site. Comical.dkoblesky
- This guy I work with...they send me his anniversary of *nothing* once a week, ask me to congratulate him...we laugh about itdkoblesky
- LinkedIn is fucking infuriating, and people are treating it more and more like fucking Facebook. Ugh.Continuity
- the new design is actually really good!grafician
- plus the reach you get with a post in Linkedin is #1 way above Fb, Insta or dribbblegrafician
- Linked in is huge.....but the way the phone book used to be. Everyone one has it....it just mostly sits theredkoblesky
- eventually i quit all social media but linkedin was way first. years before fb and the rest.renderedred
- people don't communicate through linked in. people communicate through twitter and fbdkoblesky
- LinkedIn is just a resume (cv) or whatever. Update when required.monospaced
- And yeah. Their pathetic attempts to get interaction are annoying and fruitless.monospaced
- Linkedin has the worst content, worst UI design and is extremely boring.utopian
- i_monk6
Every time the East Clintwood thread bumps I think "I know famous people's names! I can do this!" and then crickets as I struggle to think of a single famous name, let alone one that would work.
- grafician-9
oh common, you chaps didn't even knew who Maradona was until today lol
soccer? it's football fam! until you jumped a very tall fence to get on a stadium you know shit mate
Yous think Maradona was top? I can give you 10 more players better, not to mention Pelé is still around in his 80s...
- I bet he couldn't fish like Gazza.PhanLo
- let people like what they want! Maradona was an icon is his own weird drug-fueled way.capn_ron
- My childhood cat was called Pele.PhanLo
- PELE!Gnash
- the GOAT footballer is still Tom Bradynb
- Tom brady could get crushed for life by any rugby player on the planet mate lolgrafician
- is graf's "Why don't you know what I know" rant about Belichick??futurefood
- mate have you jumped a fence to see a football match or fight a rival team's hooligans? fuck off lolgrafician
- the "hand of God" was real tho, you can get away easily with that shit in footballgrafician
- Yup I have no idea who he is.pango
- maquito if I see you on a stadium cheering for the opposing team, I'll fight you, then first round beers are on me homie!grafician
- pango homie you're not even into football mate lolgrafician
- yup. too much running.pango
- lol gatekeeper, please give the list. I grew up playing soccer or "futbol" because "football" was already taken.garbage
- Maradona is top two, but since he was before my time my favorites were Ronaldinho, Forlan, Zlatan.garbage
- Still love Dan Marino, he was also great in Ace Venturanb
- I can’t tell if you’re taking the piss here.ben_
- american football is nothing, any of our rugby guys can destroy your players even with protective equipmentgrafician
- for football, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Messi are way better than Maradona ever was, chillgrafician
- Not even touching the American football comment because it's so off, but I'm still waiting for the list. You're really saying Diego isn't top 3?garbage
- What are you, Brazilian? lolgarbage
- Big big Peyton Manning fan over here. Probably one of the best evernb
- he was, top 5 in his time ofc, but all time, it's Pele with Messi out there, do you guys know football or?grafician
- Love football! Don’t know why it’s not more popular in many countries just an American thing, and Canadiannb
- football a thing in canada?pango
- Cristiano is better than Messi, and I hate to say it because he's such a diva but Messi never fully won that debate.garbage
- But really, are you Brazilian or have Brazilian family? Diego and Pele are the GOATs.garbage
- i prefer baseball. you can pretty much stand there all day.pango
- Soccer is a legitimate name for the sport.monospaced
- https://www.google.c…monospaced
- Lol Messi. Maradona got it done internationally and didn't need the fucking Camp Nou.face_melter
- another of graf's '...well, actually...' high horse bangers.face_melter
- Baseball is amazingnb
- Thought I left the football world behind after college, but I guess it's always a subject to get mad about...Sorry if the tone was oversteppinggrafician
- nahhh it's entertaining. maybe cuz i'm not invested lolpango
- odd postfadein11
- Nairn0
Just had a noxious exchange with some poor customer service rep at a domain company I've used for over 20 years but am about to no more. I registered my first domains with easily.co.uk in the late 90s and always used to recommend them, but something bad happened a few years back and their service and web interface became TERRIBLE.
I stuck with them for a few domains, simply because I'm lazy and couldn't be bothered to upgrade my main web hosting with another company to accomodate the domains.
Anyway, my main work domain expired 5 days ago, but I was only informed after the event. I've just tried to login to sort it, but can't through the terrible interface for.. well, reasons I can't begin to fathom. I even have a valid payment method on there, so why it didn't just auto-update, I can't tell. Checking again the email they sent, I need to phone them. Why, i don't know.
15 minutes on hold, and then a horrid conversation with someone who clearly won't recognise how terrible their service and interface is and - this is the really bad part, imo - she asks me to confirm the first 4 letters of my password! I'm like - you can see my password? She clearly doesn't see a problem with this "we do this all the time", and then it goes downhill from there. I apologise to her and suggest she try and find work with a better company, which was a bit shit of me, but whilst I could tell she might be a nice person underneath (sounded Canadian), she's clearly oblivious to how bad her company is and was being combative rather than apologetic.
Anyway, turns out my phoning her was a complete waste of time - apparenty I had to email some other department. Thanks. Why didn't you just say that in the email, rather than "you need to phone us"?
Total clusterfuck.
Just in case you think "oh, that's that miserable poisonous cunt nairn being all nairn again", look here: https://www.trustpilot.com/revie…
- Classic @Nairn!ideaist
- Well someone got on their high to criticize someone just doing their job.Hayoth
- Aye, like your old friends, the Nazis?
Shouldn't you be in your basement, getting fucked by your son?Nairn - cliff notes buddypinkfloyd
- Just so you know, I DIDN'T post the following. I was going to.
"Something something, get back to fucking your dad".Nairn - He didn’t call to criticize her. It was provoked. Hayoth is such a confused little boy.monospaced
- microkorg3
Came up with an idea for a gadget that'd help out in every home. Did some googling and searching for something similar but it does not exist!
Have I got it in me to develop it into a product and start a kickstarter?
- Maybe!BK
- see you in shark tankpinkfloyd
- Do itGuyFawkes
- Look for something similar also on amazon and alibaba directly, google not reliable for this kind of searches for a while...grafician
- how much do you need? I'll write a checkdkoblesky
- If it doesn’t exist ask yourself seriously again if it would really be useful.monospaced
- no. ask others that they would use it, but in a form what doesn't exposes the whole idea. maybe discuss just the problem what its solving, and u will seested
- Rightmonospaced
- I think I know: https://www.youtube.…Ianbolton
- Sorry, wrong link: https://youtu.be/Zrz…Ianbolton
- Be wary about crowd-funding, all that does is give peeps in China your idea and a way to gauge its potential, so they can rip you off before you start running.Nairn
- someone on here does the forks with a cutting edge? prob a good person to talk to.kingsteven
- ^@imbecile.
@microkorg - is it the sort of thing you could 'bootstrap' and start off with a few DIY units, as sellable beta versions?Nairn
- cherub0
Black Friday sucks now. Where are the *good* deals?
No, I do not want to buy a 90" tv.
- Gardener18
I'm quite excited about tonight's mix on my radio show
The Garden of Earthly Delights as I have an exclusive hour
long religious mix by Ninja Tune man DJ Food alongside a
selection from my own current playlist. It's live from 10pm
until the clock strikes midnight, praise be! crmk.co.uk/listenif any of you sinners miss it the full show will be posted here tomorrow
- this came about when I gave him an art book and he asked what I'd like in return, hence this exclusive mixGardener
- oh "art book" wasn't a spank mag it was a Bridget Riley exhibition book from 1971Gardener
- nice one!Fax_Benson
- i approve this messagehans_glib
- Nice! He's superbfadein11
- thumbs up!SimonFFM
- Good stuff. Seen him play live a couple of times. Be sure to listen in.Ianbolton
- i like unfolded record crate idea - did strictly kev do you a cover as well? looks like his stylewoowahesque
- yes, he's sorted this all sweetGardener
- Ooohhhh nice! Can we request? I got a few. Snakefinger- Garden of Earthly Deli http://youtu.be/HJ4w… Bad Religion- Generator http://youtu.be/gEl1…cherub
- Cool!scarabin
- I'm a sinner, but I haven't heard DJ Food in years.garbage
- awesome!!!microkorg
- my hour, which is first at 10pm will bookend his mix (at 11pm) on the Mixcloud link tomorrow but they are separate tonight - if that makes sense?!Gardener
- This is cool, and relaxing, but I was expecting a religious theme. Is anyone else listening?cherub
- yes thats at 11pm, I'm just warming you up!Gardener
- Whatever was just playing at 10:45 was orsum.cherub
- ooh ta ~ full tracklisting tomorrowGardener
- a few of the lyrics were "10,000 years in jail" and something about spend time with me. I did a google search and google doesn't know(unusual)cherub
- most likely Brendan Perry (half of Dead Can Dance) and his song 'You Were Barefoot'Gardener
- Yep, that was it. I dunno what instrument that is but it rocks. This is good stuff, Gardener! https://youtu.be/L97…cherub
- It sounds like the either the guitar "voice" on a synthesizer or a guitar high up on the frets.cherub
- Nairn0
*swears at stupid, arbitrary measurements*
"Just under 178mm? 114.something millimetres? WTF?!"*
*fizzles*
*rages*
*spits*
"oh. Wait".
*turns ruler around*
7" x 4½".
"Riiight. Of course".
- Who uses inches in 2020?Ianbolton
- People who respect wood.Nairn
- tbf, the guy i'm working with is fucking great at his craft. Our age, but from a different realm, so uses inches.
<This was me being dumb.Nairn - As a carpenter, one of the hardest things to learn is how to read the tape measure upside down, which comes up all the time.cherub
- ^^^^ Because in the construction industry, they are locked into "half" "quarter" "Eighths" and so on. Which doesn't work on metric. Too entrenched to change.cherub
- https://woodworkingf…cherub
- Nice read cherub. Fascinating.monospaced
- PonyBoy1
I've been drinking these 12oz. cans of black tea all day... so lemony good... 5 calories a can... grab one... shake it hard... pop and drink.
I've had about 6... maybe 7 since 10am this morning... probably too much but fuck I just wanted one more. Headed into the kitchen and my phone rings.
"Hi, babe... I'm good.. you?" I said as I reached into the fridge not bothering to look as I was focused on my wife. "7:15 works... pick you up out back?" I asked as I proceeded to shake the utter fuck out of a 12oz. can of DIET COKE... "Cool... see you then.. love you!!!"
*pop!!!...
- NBQ00-3
What a depressing day. Dark winter days are so depressing. Getting dark so early. And the weekend is over so quickly. On top of everything I want to go to sleep at 8pm already which is depressing too. But right now can’t really go out much anyway.
- mg332
OMG... was talking to my mom today and she was asking about Christmas suggestions (we STILL do this...) and she said "I saw this really neat shirt with a cool pattern on it that looks like something you would wear." My immediate instinct was to remind her that I asked her a decade ago to stop buying me clothes for Christmas.
She couldn't quite describe it and said she'd send a link...
It was THIS f'ing nonsense that I keep seeing advertised on Twitter:
https://www.lightinthebox.com/f/…
I was hilariously mortified that she'd even think I would be remotely interested in wearing something like that. I think my only reaction was to say "Do you even know me? Have you even noticed how I dress for the past 20 years?"
:D
- I'm almost 43 years old...mg33
- HA! Great for yard work?
My mom does the same. I'm guaranteed get the retired golfer polo shirt from Khols.bezoar - instant Trypophobia.
95% Polyester + 5% Elastane =
100% discomfort.sted - Cool momnb
- Actually it’s pretty hilarious that your mom thinks you’re a losernb
- np! LMAOZ my wife and I are dying laughing right now.mg33
- Lolz! Cool mom ;)maquito
- Great story (but I would like to see you in the sweater, too). I get these absurd ads as well.SimonFFM
- These sweaters don’t even look as advertised. The mockups are basically flat graphics and images masked into the sweater shapeNBQ00
- These ads are everywhere. I see it about five times ad day. about a week after Xmas these will be permanently in the back of closetsdkoblesky
- I see these ads all the time too. I was wonder who the hell would buy them and why am I being targeted.fooler
- Algorithm thinks you’re a losernb
- The algorithm hates me too. I see them all the time and laughter at the basic photoshopping.Chimp
- Great for falling off a cliff? Padding on one, high visibility for the rescue team on the other.garbage
- https://getyarn.io/y…nb
- wow! what a trip!oey_oey
- Hayoth-3
First Michael Flynn interview since his pardon.
Raise your communist nazi fist utopian! I hope you got your goose step boots ready you Commi fascist racist lover.
You better back away from utopian and his followers his ideology is evil. History proves it.
- Commi fascist losers!Hayoth
- Congrats! Didn’t know we had a fellow QBNr working for The Onion! Best of luck!maquito
- LOLpango
- also wrong thread.pango
- No-one cares. You're the QBN equivalent of Scrappy Doo.face_melter
- i listened to it, bcs i want to hear what they have to say. from servers in germany to vegas betting, cia, treason, thanks to this major media outlet i know.renderedred
- hahah.inteliboy
- i mean it's alex jones level but with shiny ties and military ranks...renderedred
- Really confused here. Didn't Flynn lie about working with the communist government? Yet hayoth still hates communist...pango
- Working at The Onion would be a great gig.Continuity
- Don't fuck it up, Hayoth.Continuity
- What is a commi Nazi?monospaced
- didn't you hear mono? utopian is a cominazirenderedred
- islamaatheistivcomif... mean?monospaced
- his followersneverscared
- ?neverscared
- LOLneverscared
- Hayoth, there's still people who believe the corporate press, the enemy of the people, is a legitimate source of information.IRNlun6
- QBNers following in the footsteps of Hitler.Hayoth
- whatever you say Hayoth Obergruppenführer.sted
- You can only speak for yourself, Hayoth. Your agenda has been clear for a long, long time.formed
- I am happy to stand up to the evil and racists on this platform.Hayoth
- Posting politics to the front page? INSTANT BANnb
- Hayoth, commie loser nazi loving headcasecapn_ron
- LOL on so many levels poor mook.utopian
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- Can we just talk about the professionalism here? Speakerphone to a lapel. #cheffkissgarbage
- Evil?monospaced
- racist stands up toneverscared
- racistsneverscared
- Why are you such a commie nazi lover, you commie nazi!!!FNP14
- drgs0
Three keyboard buttons which drive me insane:
Caps Lock
Num Lock
InsertHow do I disable them altogether?
Discuss- you got a shitty keyboard.
Discusssted - Its on a laptop, "Insert" is next to backspace, which is also next to "Num lock"
https://images-na.ss…drgs - Don't get me started on "Calc"drgs
- Remap them to do something else. Remap numlock to lock shift and Caps Lock to lock the number pad. Insert can be a second backspacenb
- get a MacMrT
- Bro get an HPnb
- Remaping works, thank you.
I had a ZBook before my current Dell and loved it.drgs
- you got a shitty keyboard.
- monospaced3
Off to buy my first car since 1997. Buying a house and car after 40 is still a boss move. :)
- What car! Please tell me it’s either a minivan or a sports car or a jeepnb
- you're in the 1%shapesalad
- A family car. A Mazda CX-5monospaced
- Should’ve gone full minivan!nb
- hope to have a shot at a house next year as wellshellie
- 1%? That’s funny.monospaced
- Bought the house about 5 months ago.monospaced
- good for you!milfhunter
- When people weigh the pros and cons, they always end up Zoomzoom. Best brand for the buck.jaylarson
- zoom zoom!monospaced
- monovan2020utopian
- Van-gina2020
Just kidding dude; nice ride!
Got a Subaru Outback last year and adore it. Thule rack and all. You just own 1 child still?
: )ideaist - That's a practical car, good on you.ben_
- Outback ftw!Gnash
- I heard the outback was just for leftist trans lesbian communists only.monospaced
- That's its brand @monospaced! Lolz.
4 season vehicle for rural Canadian tundra for me and the fam; it's utilitarian and rugged IMO.ideaist - First since 97? So you drove the old one for 23 years? Wow. My longest was only 8 years.SimonFFM
- I got a car in '97 when I graduated high school. It was stolen in 2006 in San Francisco. Then I moved to NYC in '08 and haven't needed a car until now.monospaced
- What was your first car, Mono?ben_
- A 1990 Honda Accordmonospaced
- but but, TaaS is almost hereKrassy
- What’s that, Krassy?monospaced
- Transportation as a ServiceKrassy
- TaaS is absolutely impractical in every conceivable way, unfortunately.monospaced
- microkorg1
Good luck with the car hunt/buy Mono.
I'm on the hunt for a new family wagon too.- Chrysler Pacifica. TRUST MEnb
- Don't buy a Japanese vehicle, they're for elitist Commi's.utopian
- lolGuyFawkes
- lol utopianNairn
- Second hand BMW estate FTW.Nairn
- the UK has access to great wagons.ben_
- There's an MB E Class wagon that's been for sale locally here for ages I've been itching to make a terrible financial decision on.ben_
- What year/engine is the E-Class? You can win, but you can lose massively depending on model/year.Longcopylover
- Yeah it’s a 2013. If I bought, it would be solely for summer road trips.ben_
- W212 are solid. Just never get a W210. That is one of the darkest chapters of MB history.Longcopylover
- shellie3
My dog is an aggressive cuddler in bed. Every day I wake up squeezed in the snaked amount of real estate. She takes up an entire human sized space on the right side of the bed, head on the pillow even, and wants to spoon. My bf tangles his legs up with mine on the other side. I get about 12 inchines of width on a king sized bed. But, I wouldn't change a thing. I'm grateful for that this holiday season.
- So awesome :) Humans don’t deserve dogs!Gnash
- Broke up with a girl long ago bc she insisted her dog slept on the bed. He'd take so much space I had to curl up in a ball. One sleepless night too many I gtfo.spl33nidoru
- Kudos to you though for taking it for the team!spl33nidoru
- You broke up with a girl over that? DangGnash
- Yeah, she wouldn’t sleep over to not leave her dog alone (I get that, I love dogs) but I was too uncomfortable trying to sleep with them at her place.spl33nidoru
- Rules: No dogs on the bed when I'm there, and never dogs on my bed. GF threw tantrum when I refused to come over, then caved to healthy boundaries.cannonball1978
- I don't mind my dog on my bed. Its' really my bfs dog, but I really wanted one. So I'll happily take my 12 inches of space in return of a cuddle sandwich.shellie
- NBQ00-1
This winter is really fucking me up. I’m getting more of a seasonal depression than usual. Really bad sleep on top of everything and no energy at all. I used to be really fit and strong in summer and the past few weeks have really fucked me up. I lost muscle mass too and feel like I gained more belly fat, feeling bloated. All the hard work during summer got erased so quickly.
- Have you considered SAD lamp therapy? https://www.healthli… I know folks that have had their life changed by this device.nb
- Needs to be a legit medical lamp to work.nb
- Yeah I have one but it’s at my parents house. Need to get it next time I visit them. I used it last winter but it hasn’t made a huge difference.NBQ00
- What I’m missing is the sun. Vitamin D. Real Vitamin-D from the sun (not supplements that don’t work really anyway).NBQ00
- Yeah tough year for getting sun.nb
- drgs0
> https://www.qbn.com/reply/398705…
> Working from home is growing on me.
> I have a web meeting tomorrow at 09:00
> Alarm: 08:55I think I leveled up
Web meeting at 09:00.
Alarm: 08:45, just enough time to masturbate- alarm: 8:55
masturbate: during zoom meetingrenderedred - I'm not there yetdrgs
- Jeff Toobin says hi...BusterBoy
- alarm: 8:55